TUESDAY FEBRUARY
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UNIVERSITY CEREMONY. branch of literature or science you take up, but do not forget that you are the heirs of an ancient and venerable civilisation-(applause)- of a great literature art most noble art (Applause) Remember, too, that you can look back to traditions of wise and astute statesmanship, which is sadly wanting at the pre sent day, not only in all China but as well. most other countries (Laughter) Do not forget these things, but let them, in confunction with the European learning which you acquire here, add purpose and vigour to, your future (Cheere), it
A Word to the Staff. ☛This leads me to a word which I venture to say in conclusion to the staff. "Education to quote Mr. Fisher again, is a very human thing, depending upon the shock of mind upon mind, of character upon character. Expensive buildings, elaborate equipment, brilliantly organised administration, all these things have their value, but the value is secondary. If the teachers are efficient, the education will be good; if they are stupid and low minded, the
most elaborate apparatus in the world will not prevent the educational system of the country from being a hollow sham,"
careers.
THE CHINA MAIL.
-WHAT TRAVELLERS
ER!
next January will be upon Mr. Hornell and not upon me. (Loughter)
one a
Thon, Sir, I should like to pay a very warm and sincere tribute to the real and consistent interest Your Excellency has shown in the affairs of this University through- out the last three years. (Applause). If I may say so without disrespect, association with Your Excellency may *sometimes give sense of the futility of much of human effort, though that does not necessarily mean that the con- tact is other than stimulating. But I should like it to be realized that during the period in question Your Excellency has never missed. Sir William Brunyate, who was a Council meeting when you, have also received with lond- and pro- been in the Colony, and that there longed applause, said: Your Ex-is no scheme I have put forward cellency, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, and until I have been assured of your the members of the University reasoned concurrence in it. (Ap Court, I am very deeply conscious plause).. of the honour you have done, me by the degree just conferred upon me, and I am all the more grateful for it because it restores to me the membership of your University, which I lost when the Vice-Chan- cellor took his seat.
Sir William Brunyate's Farewell
The Rockefeller. Foundation. And, finally, I should like to peak of the pleasure it has been to me to be brought into contact from time to time with the repre sentatives
of the Rockefeller Foundation-a matter which arises In connection with the further. bensfaction just announced by the Vice-Chancellor. I in no way refer to my natural love for bene. factors.
It is the pleasure that comes from being brought into pericnes, who understand one's contact with men of wide ex- diffealties, who share our aims
lsve
no interest to
I know the difficulties of those who come from Europe to be University teachers in the East. The atmosphere is not here. The University teacher is everywhere a poor man, and a good bank balance means much in the East, where life is precarious and one is far from
I am very grateful, too, to the home. Work is a strain because Vice-Chancellor for the eulogistic all the stimulus has to come from terms in which he has referred to within, and really recreative hollthe work I have tried to do for the difficult to arrange. University during the last three days are University teaching tends rather to
years. I will only say by way of isolate a man from his fellows, and comment that I fear it is a very loneliness is difficult to bear in the one-sided picture: he has been Club-loving East. All this I know kind enough to place to my credit but you know also the immense all the results of a great deal of and who possibilities which lie before you, very hard work done by members serra other than the progress, of Many eminent British statesmen of the staff of the University-hoth medical education, (Applause); have worked in Calentra, but the teaching and the administra-It is a thing I am rather reluctant among the Britishers who have tive staff and also what I think to hand over to my successor, but shaped the destinies of Bengal. two stand out as probably the hasheen in some ways even more I ara profoundly glad that it Important-the results of the should be there to be handed over. most prominent after Warren resolution which I believe this Of what also am I to speak? 1 Hastings, one is David Hare, a Colony to have taken three years watchmaker who devoted him- self and all he had to the teach, that it meant to have a ing of Bengalee boys; the other is University of which it could be Alexander Duff, the great Scot proud.
In the tlah Missionary Teacher. name of the University of Hong kong and all that it means to each one of you, I ask for your friendship and your help, and I know that I do not ask in vain. (Cheers).
shown Great enthusiasm was when the new Vice-Chancellor, as his first duty, presented Sir Charles Eliot and Sir William Brunyate for the degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa), much cracker firing and cheers accom- panying the conferment. It was some little time before Sir Charles Eliot, who first replied, could make himself heard.
Sir Charles Elliot.
should like to tell you very briefly what it means to a man like myself to be brought out for three years
to the Far East. It means, first If I may permit myself to draw of all, an opportunity to see, from a picture. I incline to think of a viewpoint which if it is some myself as filling, to the best of my. what detachod is none the less a ability, a period of three years convenient one, something of the between a past, fast becoming workings of this remarkable and legendary, when His Excellency important Golway. I speak of the Sir Charles Eliot was the first view-point detached, because Vice-Chancellor of the University and of the that things I noticed and a future which belongs to was your habit of attaching to Mr. Hornell. There are sides of each man a label that very much that legendary past of which I defines als position in the Colony. should have been glad to hear Sir I was naturally and very properly. Charles Eliot speak in greater labelled a Chancellor, and a instance, of Vica-analer, as is well known, detail. It is, for interest that it should be related is a "person set apart for special that within twelve years of the if somewhat_obscure purposes. present time, our first Vice-Chan- (Laughter). I very gladly accept- cellor was once bushed in attempted the position, because I do not ing to proceed direct from his feel that would further the in- Lodge to the site of the future terests of the University for its Sir Charles Elliot said: Your Lugard Hall. I speak of that want Vice-Chanelor to show an active Excellency, Ladies and Gentle-as legendary because we are fort- Interest in the public affairs of the But having passed men, I confess that my feelingsunate in still having with us on the Colony. to-day, though very pleasant, are staff some of the hardy pioneers of twenty years of my working life somewhat strange, standing here those early days, and I seem to In the public service, I will not as I do as the recipient of au know so well the reminiscent look pretend that I have felt no interest honour for which I have so often which sometimes steals over their them. I have recently been presented worthier persons than faces. It will remain firmly asso- lecturing on Political Science and myself. It is a very remarkable ciated in my mind with the citation I have sometimes wondered whe- and interesting coincidence that of precedents, almost always of ather the great mercantile houses three Vice-Chancellors should be most embarrassing character. and other like institutions that centre in this city and in Shanghai present here to-day-cheers) and I'only, regret the absence of the
are not more deserving of a place kindly figure of Dr. Jordan, who As to the future, I feel that it is acted as Vice-Chancellor for so more than safe in Mr. Hornell's ong an interim. Certainly, I have very capable hands. He will. no seen very great changes since I doubt, take some little time to
Political Problems. of this adjust his standards to our very *first visited the site
time I modest scale after his experience I should have liked to touch an University. The first came here was in the autumn of of the University of Calcutta with coins of the political problems of 1911, when Sir Frederick Lugard, its 25,000 students. But I can con- of the future, complicated as they our true founder, took me to see ceive that after the two years of must necessarily be by the divided the work in progress at that time labour spent by him upon the Cal-allegiance of the larger part of the cutta University Commission and population of the Colony. But I All these buildings where we are now were then simply a mass of in view of the entirely negative &m not here to make a political scaffolding. Then, before a year results of the Commission's scath-speech. May I be allowed, as an present old public servant, just to com- had passed, I came here in 1912 as ing, comments of the the first Vice-Chancellor, and in methods of that institution, he ment on the claim I have often seen October of that year, with a very may not regret finding himself in that the public service in this Colony less turbulent atmosphere, should, in all its branches, bá mann- small staff, including Professor a Middleton Smith and Professor where decent respect shewn by a fed by exports? Sir, my experience Hinton and one or two others, we Vice-Chancellor to his Chancel- leads ine to believe that the training anened the first session of the lor is not regarded as sycophancy of a body of capable men as admini University. At that time the and where, as I can honestly strators is relatively easy, but that' students were lodged in the build-assure him, our students are no there are few greater dangers for.
The Future.
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DEATH OF A SIAMESE PIONEER.
FORMER HONGKONG RESIDENT.
The death is occurred at Bang- kok of Dr. T. Heyward Hays.
already avcognized as occupying an DR. T. HEYWARD HAYS, important place in the affairs of the Colony and that is destined, under his guidare, to play an increaing part in the affairs of the Colony But (Applause) ind of China. most of all I have handed over a body of samo 300 students, of whom he will lean-as I have learnt to be more then a littlo proud. They are at an age at which the Vice- Chancellor and myself, in our rea pective generations, were occupied in solving the problems, of the uni- wire as we saw it, and, besides the problems we solved or did not solve, they are faced with all the grave problems connected with China on the fringes of which I have ventured lightly to touch.
Last month he went into the Nursing Homes in order to have an operation performed on his neck, says the Sim Obacrper. This was. successfully carried out, and in a few days he returnel to his home at Bungak Hospital. But, unfort nately, he was compelled to re- enter the Nursing Home, for another operation. This took something like an hour and a half, with a local Contact with Students.
Anaesthetic. The patient seemed to In the end, the success of the bear the operation well, and it was Vice-Chancellor (I decline to say thought that he would inake a com. "his success or failnco") will depend plate recovery. After two or three on the measure in which he is able days he left the Home, and, unfort to help them in their attitude toately while he seemed to be re- wards these problems. I am glad covering from the effect of the oper io hear the proposes to take ation he contracted asthma, the On the a real part in the teaching work of direct cause of death. the University, heemse my own ex- Saturday morning he thin perience in that firection, regret cheerful, and even to within a few fably small as it has heen, has hours of the end he chatted with
But shortly." shewn me the value of such work. those in attendance. For the rest. tus contact with the after six o'clock there was a turn student work may be almost eum for the worse, and he gradually med as consisting in the making snk until the orul came about eight of after dinner speeches. As to how o'clock. they should be made I will offer him no advice, both because I know hima io need more and because every man must unke his after-dinner specches for himself. As to my own me thods, if I may make a personal confession, I have always heen ham pered by the knowledge that, for mo, most of the problems I set out 10 solve nearly 40 years ago, still
He was born in 1854, at Charles- remain unsolved. And, that being so, honestly has compelled me, us ing all the periphrases of which the ton. South Carolina,-end when a boy of about seven years of age after dinner speech is capable. prae heard the first shot as Fort Snup fically to admit as much. then contented myself with the leser, one of the most famous places on that most problems are suscepti in the American Civil War. After ble of more solutions than one: that lifying in his profession, he first the other man, though very likely out to Bangkok in 1866 as s a bigot, is none the less probably member of the Medical Staff of the Mission, American Presbyterian honest in his beliefs; that strong
Trom which he "resigned a year conviction is a less thing them the cumcity to act when action is called. It was then he joined the Siamese Naval Service as Surgeon- for: and that, in the meantime, san- ity and patience are amongst the tieneral of the Navy, a position be most precious of virtues. And if, filed with marked ability and ne- twenty years hence, there shall be in ceptance to the Government for the long period of twenty-five years. China a dozen men and women who He also served for one years ns Are the more smilingly facing their
Court Physician. difficulties in that spirit because of my contect with them in the las three years, then that time, as I think, will not have been spent in vain. (Applause.)
I have.
With the death of Dr. Hays there Masses one of the oldest residents of Bangkok, a man who has seen the country develop to its present stage. There have been great changes sinco the day he first arrived in Bangkok. He has played an outstanding part: in the industrial development of the country, which, it can be said with out exaggeration, owes to him a debt of gratitude.
MEDICAL ADVISER.
While Burgeon-Genomi of the Navy, he accompanied the late King Chulalongkorn 14 Java, and| in 1904 proceeded to Japan to meet Your Excellency. Ladies and the present King, then Crown Gentlemen. I beg once more to Prince, on his return from Europe. thank you for the honour done me He had charge of Bangrak Hos and for the patience with which you pital-the first hospital to be esti have listened to these, my farewell tablished in Bangkok-und with the Assistance of Mrs. Hays us nurse, His Excelloney the Chanceller, di much valuable work. words. (Chears.)
At one time he also was Medical having declared the congregation closed, the re-forming of the pro-Adviser to the Railway Department, cession was interrupted by the un- and at the frequent and earnest Bir Charles Eliot and Sir William Dumrong, he became Chief Super- dergraduates, who made a rush for solicitations of H.R.H. Prince Branyate and "chuired" them out of the Hall fan waiting motor enr.
NOTABLE VISITOR.
intendent of Government Hospitals. Since then he has undertaken many responsibilities in the Medical Ser vice and carried out a great deal of important work tending towards the improvement of the medical ad- ninistration of the country. ·Ho founded the Medical School, or
ings in which we are now, and less concerned with the acquisi-a small Colony than that of the se. American lawyer and writer work of a similar nature that will
passing of examinations. So far, we have not yet erected a pedes tal for the "failed B.A."
above the University path there tion of knowledge than with the was a wild thicket in which could be seen slightly rising the first Hall. beginnings of Lugard (Applause) Now, when I come to-day, I find a well-ordered if somewhat restricted park, I think
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Miss Lilian Cheralloy showed find powers of technique in a cycle of three pieces. Miss Esee Cornell, Maters George Bond and A. Daw Mr. John M. Gardner, the notedganised and started the present PROFESSOR DANENBERGB Miss C. C. Alves, Miss E. Ball and
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son adeo added to their proWOM ANË helped to make the afternoon the Mias Winifred leave his name cherished in the
The series of memory teste succone it was. A capable man of business, and to which we have made re Robinson must also be mentioned medical history of the country.
last night for her part in an Impromptu Ro possessed of grest foresight, he ference culminated
re-coco for two pianos. Master Emil pupils the Mr. Gardner has been for many early entered into the business life in
annual years a member of the bar, and is of the community while carrying on cital at the City Hall when the St. Danenberg obviously created much a Chairman of one of their Com-his professional duties. He co- Andrew's Hall was crowded to the interest and was accorded an encare,
Mr. mittees.
Gardner's latest tablished the British Dispensary, doors to listen to the sumptuous His first public recital is to be given which he carried on for over a quar. treat provided by the Professor's on March 11, next and will doubt- Resurrected" which was published something like fourteen years ago, of thirty items from, the works of Congratulations must be showered Baint Saens, Beethoven, Grainger, an teacher and pupils alike for their a few years ago and had an exten- to to present proprietor.
He was prominent in the deve Macdowell. Chaminade, Mozart, work in the cause of good music.
the buildings, not because I do not your principal adviser and so far I should like to bear witness.to the literary, work is the "Pharaoh's ter, of a century, before he sold it pupils. The programme consisted less be attened in large numbers.
he
and
But an appetent in the Far problems of China, and, of these, I East gives one also a view of the can only describe the prospect as But in the few minutes at my patiomie. As a tribute to many disposal this afternoon you will not
men and women, missionaries, edu expect ine to talk about education. cationalists and others, whom I I had better not say anything about For I have for three years been have met in various parts of China, admire them, but because in every as I may have failed to carry you whole-heartedness and single-mind- well-regulated University it is the with me during that time I can edness with which they are pursuing practice to say that the accommoda-scarcely hope to convince you now their respective tasks in the midst tion is totally inadequate. I have Further, I have handed over to the of China's distracting problems. learnt with very great pleasure and Vice-Chancellor and, while Only would I plead for the ex-
sive sale in the States. Mr. Gardner|lopment of local commerce and in-Chopin, Debussy, Schubert, and The pianos used were supplied by I congratulate Mr. Hornell that on knows that he can count on my tension to the Chinese people of that is on a two years tour of the world dustry, and in his time served on others, and in all the efforts made the Anderson Music Co.
with his wife, and is at present the boarila of directors of most of was evinced that, fine perception of Mesure. 9. Moutrie Co. and proved the very day he has taken over the help to the utmost in any way in kindly tolerance with which we duties of Vice-Chancellor of the which he may ask for it, when I habitually think of our own political staying at the Hongkong Hotel the mincipal companies in Bang the composer's air and the teakni- very fine instruments. University, a new donation of con- hand over I prefer to hand over difficutide and mistakes. Having He pays the highest tribute to the kok. At the time of his death he cal ability to bring it forth which
London papers record the dauth": siderable magnitude has been given without reserve. On only one or reached for years, that majorities Colony saying, in his own words, was chairman of the Bangkok we have come to learn as the for Dock, the Meklong Railway Com-sult of Professor Damenberg's tutor to the University. (Applause) two points will I venture to touch must rule, we no sooner find a Mini-Hongkong is the prettiest city in many. Tatil the Faknam Railway jal efforte. Last night's was the tenth
Hostels Extensionsstry in office which admittedly his William Brunyate upon his most First, then, I should like to ass behind it a more third of the electo the world." Writers he declares, Company, Lid., and the Sinca of the scies and i had interest of Miss Kate Terry elder sister
cesses at the Lyceum and elsewhere successful administration, and ciste myself very wholeheartedly mate than we proudly point to it se a do not do it justice, and do not Steam Packet Company, Ltd., all only from the fact that Mrs. A. W. Miss Ellen Terry. She was born particularly on the restoration of with the eloquent plea for the ex-Supreme illustration of "the British give outsiders-an adequate des-of these companion had the benefit Da Roze, who commenced life 44, and bad many notable s
transcendent for many years of his ripe experi- Mins Elfrida Osmond has appeared in a brief stage career which closed
1867 financial order. As for your new tension of our mission hostels made spirit of compromise !” Ágain, I cription of its
ence and his great business ability, and i'ayed at each ona. In comD
bininy wide Prior Danenberg Vice-Chancellor, after hearing the from this place by Dr. Tso a few was talking the other day with a beauty."
in variations on theme of Beeth
A Diplomatic Correspondelk most interesting and able address
aven she showed that the passing states that the text of the Angli which he has given you, I predict weeks ago. For the moment, I prominent resident in the Colony of that he will be a great success here regard. those extensions as even nationality not my own, when he Saturday for Singapore.
London, February 18.In years have only added to them brillian Americans liquor traffic treaty in b more important than the provision served that Chi Had now been and that the University will make another University Hostel or of in state of confusion for dozen years and it was imperative that she
connection with the Sino-Germanor of touch, Miss Chers Wong o
with
whom he Chinese community ng cironlated among the Donsin
Governments, se during the recent further and rapid progress under
· regard to agreement the Roman Catholic Hostel that we should settle down, «1 vandrerad to his administration. (Applause),
are hoping, because there is ask him whether in his longunge
Germany's war Indemnity to should be hond plavell & cycle of Imperial Conferences their repre Advice To Students.
more chance of something being there was any distinelivs" name for
China, the Times Bays as soon as three pier in brilliant fashion.
I venture to congratulate Sir
present that for the Hongkong Government ple: faced by dous problema,
have case I referred a few weeks ago, ion of our own informales, kod urak-
Mr. and Mrs: Gardner leave on
THE QUAINTS:
While being " towed from
And now, I have only a word to done in that direction before the whot-we-know in Ringland as the Hongkong is in for another good payment is made to China that Miss Fernándés submitted Chopin'sentatives expressed (a) wieb.to. sel say to the students of this Universituation becomes really serious hundred years war SheLetrus, by all
ronde the ang. The Bartek "sity who are by far the most im-next January, Let me say, Sir, mpana,, do all we aan sy help a pont tire, for R. B. Sallsbury and his China should remove the notice haunting in RAM flat and the document..
happy band of Qualats are due to of invalidation from the outstand from Threvealed Miles Lana portant part of the
open, for a short season at the ing bonds issued to Germany and meeting, and especially the education students, to whose hard hit, save for Estramonto y pro Theatre on Friday next; The this should be followed by the da Rocha the poepenser of a strong Philadelphia: to`. Baltimore to be
students I Chinese
effect in banging out the main Louisiana" brake from the tow and deid it before very often, and Į makeshift-provisions have proved stain from all noodlems, szinoudm of "'", Programmes to be subinitted, are prompt: removal of the Stock left hand which she weed with good broken up; the American battleship. it is substantially the same as possible they are housed in the the handling of who), thus all, and exceptional and quite our of the Exchange ban on certain Chinese theme in the most difficult piece.as for some time adrift in she ordinary. They include The securities. The Times double My Car Brage, Hias M., M. Atlantic with seven men dboard, Mr. Harnel! has said in the course old St. Stephen's premises, until their problems and natu
One that word as to the troos 1 Beggar's Opera "The Nine whether Germany has the credite Alves; Miss E. o Rocks and Miss According to later messages shot of bis address. You are here to such time as the purchasers shall
O'Clock Revue" and the things necessary to take full advantage of Mario Rogatio were also successful. has been found seventy miles off acquire the learning of Europe. pull them down but I am have to-day handed on to my sur
the spart of a Russian dance whilad her assistance. Do your best to acquire na fully and coward enough to feel glad onsson. I heva handed over him for which the Quaints alone are the opportunity of developing Miss Loly Caralho entered into Cape Henry, and tugs are going to as thoroughly as you can whatever that the responsibility for as I believe, in insitution that la famous Booking is at Moutries.. trade with China. Reuter
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